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This Week In Focus
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1st November 2018 by Manager in This Week In Focus
Help with Health Costs – Prescription charges
NHS prescription charges are now £8.80 per item. If you have long-term condition or any health issue which requires 2 or more prescriptions per month, the cost can be prohibitive. But there are many people who are eligible for free prescriptions and there are ways of reducing the overall cost if you need 2 or […]
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17th October 2018 by Manager in This Week In Focus
Disability – Reasonable Adjustments at Work
This is the third and last in this current series of postings about employment issues. This week we are looking at the statutory duty of employers to make “reasonable adjustments” under the Equality Act 2010 (EA) to enable people with disabilities or health conditions to either start work or to stay in work. What is […]
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17th October 2018 by Manager in This Week In Focus
Employment Discrimination
Are you being treated unfairly at work? Have you considered that this might be due to discrimination? It’s only unlawful discrimination if you’re treated unfairly because of one or more protected characteristics as defined by the Equality Act. These are: age; disability; gender reassignment; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity; race; religion or belief; […]
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11th October 2018 by Manager in This Week In Focus
Problems at work
Are you unhappy at work? Do you feel you may be being bullied or harassed? Are you disabled? Do you feel you may be being discriminated against? Or maybe you are absent through sickness, possibly due to stress from your work situation? Some of these issues will be explored in more detail in future postings, […]
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8th October 2018 by Manager in This Week In Focus
Private Renting – Retaliatory eviction
The national Citizens Advice organisation (CitA) uses evidence provided by advisers (from all local offices), who fill out anonymised pro-formas about issues which clients present with which are unfair, illegal or on policies which are not working in the way intended. The most recently released CitA report is about retaliatory eviction – which is when […]
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1st October 2018 by Manager in This Week In Focus
World Mental Health Day
Many people will experience mental health problems during their life time. Research shows that one in four adults experiences at least one episode in any year and that one in five older people living in the community are affected by depression. Children and young people can also experience mental health issues. One in ten have […]
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17th September 2018 by Manager in This Week In Focus
World Alzheimer’s Month
Every year, since 1994, September has been World Alzheimer’s Month, with 21st September being World Alzheimer’s Day. Dementia is a term which covers not only Alzheimer’s (although this is the most common form of dementia) but other causes such as vascular disease, dementia with Lewy bodies and fronto-temporal dementia. What are the early symptoms? These […]
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10th September 2018 by Manager in This Week In Focus
Personal Independence Payment (PIP) – mobility component.
PIP mobility component has two parts to it, called “activities”. One relates to standing and walking, called “moving around”, which is relatively straightforward. The other is called “planning and following journeys”. This became fraught with difficulty for many applying for the first time or being reassessed, either when transferring from DLA or because their current PIP […]
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3rd September 2018 by Manager in This Week In Focus
Free School Meals
Children will be returning to school this week. It isn’t always clear which children are eligible for free school meals. In the first instance, ALL children of “infant school age” – that is those in Reception, Year One and Year Two, will be provided with free school meals. This can be worth as much as […]
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27th August 2018 by Manager in This Week In Focus
Challenging a benefit decision – Mandatory reconsiderations and Appeals.
Clients often come to Citizens Advice when their benefit claim is turned down or has been changed. Often this is for disability benefits such as PIP, DLA or Employment and Support Allowance, but it could be for another benefit such as Job Seekers Allowance, Attendance Allowance, Carers Allowance, Universal Credit and many more – for […]
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